I am building a website for a blind piano player. There are many audio examples on the site. We ran into an issue with the audio player. Usually a blind person can turn audio on and off on an iPhone with having VoiceOver being active and double tapping, I think with two fingers. But with my website that doesn’t do the trick. The audio keeps running, which is very annoying especially when it is a long fragment. Apparently it is very hard when you are blind to find the Pause button and alas double tapping doesn’t work.
Is anybody familiar with this issue?
Does anybody have some additional code or something so that double tapping with Voice Over active would stop the audio being played?
You’ll want to research voiceover and see how it works. It might be working with browser audio commands, or it might be integrated into the page through a plug-in, and offering individual player element control.
In the former, the issue would be browser setup.
In the latter, likely player component setup. You may need some accessibility settings so that voiceover can see it and determine its state, or you may need a more accessible player.
You could likely build a control layer with JS, but you’d need to know all of these elements thoroughly.
Thanks Michael, sorry for the late reply. I thought I would get an email notification if anybody would respond, but apparently not. Yeah, I have not much idea where to start with this. I do know that with other websites it works with double tapping, so it doesn’t seem a browser setup. I’ll think to contact the audio player company again. But I had done that before and they did not reply. I don’t know JS. Anyway, thanks!